On April 13, 2023, the Gansu Provincial Transportation Work Conference was officially held in Lanzhou. It is reported that in 2023, the transportation work in Gansu Province will achieve six hard indicators, build 10,000 kilometers of hardened roads for natural villages (groups), complete the investment of more than 100 billion yuan in roads and waterways, complete the investment of 6 billion yuan in airport construction, and collect expressway tolls No less than 10 billion yuan, build 120 comprehensive service stations for passengers, cargo and mail, and build 10 expressway opening sub-projects. And in this way, it will promote the rapid recovery of highway and civil aviation passenger and cargo transportation, and the postal industry will maintain a stable and progressive trend.

2022 is an extremely unusual year in the development of Gansu's transportation. In 2022, Gansu Province will complete a transportation fixed asset investment of 109.92 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 11.7%, breaking through the 100 billion yuan mark for the first time, and ranking in China's second phalanx.

In terms of major project construction, the investment scale of newly started expressways reached 120 billion yuan. 15 first-class expressways of 707 kilometers from Wudu to Jiuzhaigou, Wangertang to Xiahe, Ershiligoukou to Cheluyaoxian, etc., and 9 second-class expressways of 153 kilometers were built. The mileage has reached more than 7400 kilometers. Wen County was newly connected to expressway, and the number of counties (cities, districts) connected to expressway in Gansu Province reached 72. The main project of the terminal building of the third-phase expansion project of Zhongchuan Airport was capped; the reconstruction and expansion project of Jiayuguan Airport was started; Huachi General Airport was completed. The comprehensive logistics park in Baiyin City and the Dongsheng Logistics Park in Wudu District, Longnan City were basically completed.

In 2023, the transportation system of Gansu Province will make every effort to promote the practice of Gansu, a powerful country in transportation, and start the implementation of the four-way highway, two-reach and one-chain project, the smooth waterway passenger and cargo waterway project, the airport civil general-purpose flight project, and the industry governance and transportation service double improvement project. Be a pioneer of modernization in Gansu.

Gansu Province will focus on three corridors and six passages, and keep an eye on the annual investment of 100 billion yuan to ensure that the mileage of expressways and first-class highways in Gansu Province will exceed 8,000 kilometers by the end of the 14th Five-Year Plan, and the proportion of ordinary national highways of second-class and above will reach more than 85%. There are 11 civil transport airports and 5 general-purpose airports. The navigation conditions of inland waterways are constantly improving. 8 new counties such as Dongxiang and Jishishan are connected to expressways, and 80 counties in Gansu Province are connected to expressways. Editor/He Yuting